Thank you very much! It was a blast to run -- has it really been six years? Alas, most of my group has scattered to the four winds, but we're considering trying out the Whartson Aethernauts approach.

Yay! It would be great to hear more from your fine gaming group, sir.

You might want to consider letting @Hal share your Patron-only Against the Darkness campaign with the public, as well. It was truly an epicly epic epos in the vein of such luminaries as Whartson Hall and, uh... Well, do you need more endorsement than that?

Butt-centipedes!

Elvis, the Once & Future King!

Puns, puns, puns!

Bob, the Vatican Accountant!*

A female player whom the other participants tease with sexual innuendo, and who retaliates by increasing the pr0n factor!

A mild-mannered doctor who just wants to take a nap in his pink pajamas!

A GM who valiantly soldiers on with his attempts to build an eerie atmosphere of dread, which the players gleefully tear down with their filthy smut and smutty filth!

Inordinate amounts of time spent on detailed descriptions of the PC's in-game breakfast, lunch and supper!

Improvised singing & dancing!

A lost (final!) session!

*Clearly demonstrating that gaming groups in Ottawa follow the same 1st Rule of Gaming that the Yorkton Gamers established, specifically: "All NPCs are called Bob", along with the corollary Rule 1b: "Any NPC whose name isn't Bob, will soon become Bob".

*Clearly demonstrating that gaming groups in Ottawa follow the same 1st Rule of Gaming that the Yorkton Gamers established, specifically: "All NPCs are called Bob", along with the corollary Rule 1b: "Any NPC whose name isn't Bob, will soon become Bob".

In violation of said rule, I did run a never-released adventure in which all NPCs in a given location were named Joey. Bit of an in-joke regarding a now-defunct local eatery called "Joey's Only Fish Restaurant", which in-game turned out to be a "Joeys-Only Fish Restaurant."

Hal is more than welcome to put out the Against the Darkness adventure again if he can find it. It's a surprisingly enjoyable system to use, although the "all weapons do the same damage" conceit was a bit hard on the old suspension of disbelief.

ETA: I actually managed to give one of the girls in that campaign nightmares because of the adventure. Quite proud of that.

I'd never heard of Shadrack, either, before listening to this episode. Super-educational!

And the less said about "Adolf, the Red-Nosed Hitler", the better...

By the way, can anyone remember what recording the Jaffa Cake discussion was from? It was probably one of the World's Largest Dungeon episodes; Fin was elaborating on how the British customs and tax duties system has different rules for chocolate-covered cake vs. chocolate bisquits. ("It's defined by what happens to them when they go stale: One of them gets harder, and the other gets soggier.")

It's always interesting to hear one of the site recordings referencing another group's recordings; it reinforces the sense of a community effort, and it also helps to provide a kind of time stamp.

By the way @kafkonia - do you happen to have a link to that Chanukah comic strip you guys mentioned in this episode? The one where a bunch of Jewish Marvel characters* are waiting for Elijah, and then Frodo AKA Elijah Wood shows up? Have tried finding any mentions of it online, but so far in vain.

*Sure, most people have heard that Shadowcat is Jewish - but Thing? Really? Hard to picture the ever-lovin' Ben Grimm finding a kippah that's big enough for his orange noggin.

By the way @kafkonia - do you happen to have a link to that Chanukah comic strip you guys mentioned in this episode? The one where a bunch of Jewish Marvel characters* are waiting for Elijah, and then Frodo AKA Elijah Wood shows up? Have tried finding any mentions of it online, but so far in vain.

*Sure, most people have heard that Shadowcat is Jewish - but Thing? Really? Hard to picture the ever-lovin' Ben Grimm finding a kippah that's big enough for his orange noggin.

It's from an installment of Twisted Toyfare Theatre, but I don't recall which one. It's in one of the collections.

Kafkonia: Terry, you should know by now that if it's got a knob, you can control it. Terry: ...I don't always swing that way?Kafkonia: I didn't say you would want to, I just said you could. Things with knobs are easy to control.

BTW, does the Rideau Center really have decorative alien hentacle lamps on the ceiling?

Kafkonia: Terry, you should know by now that if it's got a knob, you can control it. Terry: ...I don't always swing that way?Kafkonia: I didn't say you would want to, I just said you could. Things with knobs are easy to control.

BTW, does the Rideau Center really have decorative alien hentacle lamps on the ceiling?